Tom sounds like you are a Puke fan. I must say Puke is probably the most overrated team in the Top 25. If it was the for the horrible calls they get they probably would have lost 5 or 6 more games. Puke won't won't even make it to the sweet 16 this year.

I have to agree, the second half foul calls were ridiculous. So much as graze a player and you get called for reaching in. When an absurd amount of "fouls" get called the team with the deeper bench will prevail.

Nope, simply saying NCSU doesn't have a deep bench. They haven't been able to recruit nearly the caliber players as Duke has in recent years and i don't think anyone can debate that. So those questionable fouls hurt them disproportinately and favored Duke. I think that's pretty clear. Notice I'm not saying Duke got more favorable calls or anything like that that people usually bring up whenever Duke plays(esp @ home).